Virtual Staging - 4 Differences From Physical One

Home staging is considered the best solution for real estate agents to deal with challenging houses such as empty houses, cluttered houses or degraded houses. For those who have used physical home staging, perhaps the price they had to pay for a house staged is not cheap. It is said around $2,000 - $7,200 to stage a 2,000-square-foot home with a three-month minimum staging contract. Such a huge amount of money if you have a low budget. Because of high cost, some have discovered digital staging which serves the same purpose as physical staging but brings more benefits than the predecessor version..

In this article, you will learn about 5 differences between virtual staging and physical one to understand why many and many real estate agents are using digital staging as the alternative of physical staging

#1. Time Advantage

When it comes to physical home staging, the process is very complicated. Before listing your home, you need to do many work such as clean the floor, furniture, repaint the wall if it is old, declutter, and depersonalize the room. And if the room is empty, you will have to buy or rent new furniture, then rearrange them in your house with the help of professional home staging. It will take you a lot of time to do it.

In the meantime, it only takes you one business day to finish virtually furnishing your home. All you need to do is sending the photo of your rooms to the virtual stagers, and tell them how you want the room to turn out. Simple and easy! But make sure you describe as clearly as possible your ideas so that they don't misunderstand you.

#2. Money Saving

As mentioned above, to physically stage a house, you need to pay for furniture rental, home stager’s consultant, storage fee if you rent to store your old furniture,... It can cost you a huge amount of money.

With virtual staging, you only need to pay money one time for a virtual stager to stage the photo of your room. And it only costs from $25 - $100. You will save a lot compared to physical staging

#3. Diversity Of Design Offers

It is very expensive to change the furniture and stage your house in different styles if you are using physical staging. You will have to pay a fee for each furniture set, fee for shooting the same view again and again,... But 3D staging is totally different. You only need to shoot the room once and then the virtual stager can change the style of the room as many as you want. The fee to change the style is very cheap too. Like BeatColor, the price for each furniture set is only $25. It means if you want to show your room in 2 interior styles, you only need to pay $50 and you no need to do anything.

#4. Solution To As-is Property

Selling an as-is property is a challenge to real estate agents. Especially, it is much more challenging if the house is too old or has a highly personalized style. To stage it, realtors may face off with the high costs and time constraint. But, with virtual staging, it is not a big deal. Virtual stagers can do renovations for you in just one business day. They will digitally renovate the home without any actual change. The house will appear in the most appealing look and attract potential buyers to visit the house.

However, there is one thing you should be aware of when using virtual staging. It can cause misrepresentation of the house and the clients can be disappointed if they realize the house is not like what they have seen in the photos. To avoid it, you should watermark on the photos showing that it is virtually staged. Home buyers will get it and can be aware of what they can see if they visit the house.

To sum up, Virtual staging is performing many outstanding features compared to physical staging. If you have a low budget, virtual staging is definitely the best solution for you.